The Start of the Race

Circa 1885, circa 1924
Pastel, gouache et crayon graphite sur papier-calque sur carton
56,5 x 65,4 cm - 22 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.
Signé en bas à droite : Degas
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Etats-Unis - Inv. 42.214
Dernière mise à jour : 2025-06-28 01:11:41
Référence : MS-1518

History

Mme Montandon, Paris, circa 1924 - Hector Brame, Paris - César de Hauke, New York - G. Seligmann, Paris ? - Mme Murray S. Danforth, Providence, 1935 [Jacques  Seligmann, New York]  - Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1942 [Don Mme Murray S. Danforth].

Exhibitions

Paris, galerie Les Arts, 1912 - Paris, galerie Georges Petit, 1924, Exposition Edgar Degas, n° 139 - Philadelphie, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1936, n° 31, repr. p. 83 - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1998, Degas at the Races, fig. 73, repr. p. 129 - Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1942, French Art from the 19th and 20th Centuries - Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 2005, fig. 37, repr. p. 54 - Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 2005-2006, Edgar Degas - Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 2008, From Dürer to Van Gogh.

 

Bibliography

Alexandre, Les Arts, août 1912, n° 128, p. 11 (repr.) - Lemoisne, 1946-1949, III, n° 889, repr. p. 519 - Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1975, French Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum Collection, 1800-1910 - Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985, n° 185, repr. p. 253 - Boggs, Cat. exp. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1998, fig. 74, repr. p. 129 - Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas,  fig. 217, repr. p. 404 - Chantilly (Domaine), Jeu de Paume, 2018, fig. 56, repr. p. 144 - Oberthür, Edgar Degas en Normandie. Le peintre du cheval et des courses, 2019, fig. 140, repr. p. 155.